Songs for a "sad" play list

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  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
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    'having a bad day' Blue Flannel :blushing:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcRDTOZkG3M
  • csuhar
    csuhar Posts: 779 Member
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    I know I've got more somewhere, but four songs that come to my mind are:

    1) "Is it Real" from Cowboy Bebop
    2) "Sadness and Sorrow" from Naruto
    3) "Pride" from Jin-Roh: the Wolf Brigade
    4) the theme from Schindler's list.

    Yes, they're all from movies or anime, but I think that's why they stand out to me. These pieces were intended to elicit somber, melancholy emotions.

    Getting away from the movie / TV soundtracks, there's also:
    1) Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
    2) The first movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"

    ETA: various forms of Blues can also have a cathartic effect.
  • cccoursey
    cccoursey Posts: 116 Member
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    What affects each of us is different because of our personal experiences. To me the ones that make me sad are the things now lost to me.... things that will never return to how they were before. Leading to the lifting of tangible heavy things. Since a heavy heart isn't easily moved.

    Crying - Roy Orbison
    Broken Crown - Mumford & Sons
    Wipe your eyes - Maroon 5
    Mad World - Tear for Fears
    When I look at you - Miley Cyrus
    Arms wide open - Creed
    Set Fire to the Rain - Adele
    All of me - John Legend
    Bleeding out/Demons - Imagine Dragons

    too many but far less than my Spotify ...
  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
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    I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

    Instant tear factory
  • heylookitsval
    heylookitsval Posts: 1,141 Member
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    Snow Patrol- Run
    Amos Lee- Careless
    Amos Lee- Colors
    One direction- More than this (don't judge me :D)
    Morgan Taylor Reid- The Greener side
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
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    jessie-Joshua Kadison
    Crucify-Tori Amos
    Putting The Damage on-Tori amos

    Most tori amos
  • AmandaLY17
    AmandaLY17 Posts: 184 Member
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    Long Road- Patty Griffin
    Bad Timing- Blue Rodeo
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
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    you - keaton henson
    thirty three - smashing pumpkins
    the noose - a perfect circle
    say goodnight to the world - dax riggs
  • IHeart90s
    IHeart90s Posts: 38 Member
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    OMG True colors by Cyndi Lauper. Only the intro to that song brings me to tears
  • aerochic42
    aerochic42 Posts: 822 Member
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    five for fighting -superman
    stonesour - through glass
    staind - can't remember the song name but it's on the break the cycle album
    brad paisley & allison kraus or Dolly Parton (both versions are good) - whiskey lullaby

    i know there are more that get me everytime and some of these are more metal/ hard rock but still good songs.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,741 Member
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    Mad World- Gary Jules
    Nothing Compares to you- Sinead o conner
    Stranger in Moscow - Michael Jackson
    Let it Die- fiest
    Play Dead- Bjork
    Sullen Girl- Fiona Apple
    Traveling Woman- Bats for Lashes
    Details in the Fabric - Jason Mraz

    Oh I could go on for days...that's like, all I listen to.

    what the hell is wrong with me. lol


    This list! LOVE IT!

    Also someone suggested Happy Birthday, which I thought was strange but Happy Birthday by Concrete Blonde would be a great addition. Lyrics below.


    Outside in the hall there's a cat fight
    It's well after midnight
    I guess I'll be alright
    I'm laid out on the floor
    Drunk and poor
    How much longer how much more

    Rock me to sleep
    Strong & deep.
    The screaming cats they give me the creep
    But aside from all that I feel no pain
    Staring up at the ceiling stains
    Neon in the window
    Sirens far away
    News on the radio happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday

    They're at it again next door
    This whole floor I swear
    They're out to drive me crazy
    Not right now I'm high as a cloud I'm soft and gray and lazy
    Neon in the window
    Sirens far away
    News on the radio happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday

    Fly me
    Out the window.
    Somewhere far away
    Singing on the radio
  • cheesevixen_staci
    cheesevixen_staci Posts: 153 Member
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    REM - everybody hurts
    radiohead - creep
    soundgarden - black hole sun
    don't cry - guns n roses
    simon and garfunkle - the sound of silence
    the beatles - all the lonely people
    lynyrd skynyrd - freebird
    velvet revolver - fall to pieces
    metallica - the unforgiven
    skeeter davis - the end of the world


    my personal favoritet this week is misty blue by dorothy moore
  • ruby_red_rose
    ruby_red_rose Posts: 321 Member
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    How can you mend a broken heart - Bee Gees.
    I'll be over you - Toto
  • andythecurefan
    andythecurefan Posts: 43 Member
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    Biko by Bloc Party

    Fade Into You by Mazzy Star

    Kyoto Song by The Cure

    Excellent music taste! Though I would recommend "Sinking" by The Cure off the same album.
  • vanillacoffee
    vanillacoffee Posts: 1,024 Member
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    I love Somewhere Only We Know and Say Something.

    My song to add: Enya- Only Time
    (Didn't they play it a lot around 9/11? It always reminds me of that)
  • tycho_mx
    tycho_mx Posts: 426 Member
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    My go to is Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt"


    I'll go with NIN's version.

    Also, NIck Cave's "The Weeping Song"
    Soundgarden's "Zero Chance
  • iLIFTcupcakesNiron
    iLIFTcupcakesNiron Posts: 12
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    Ben Folds Five "Brick"
    Creed "One last breath"
    The Script "Break even"
    Coldplay "Fix you"
  • softncudly
    softncudly Posts: 722 Member
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    How Am I Supposed to Live Without You by Laura Branigan (1983)
    All By Myself by Eric Carmen (1975)
    How Do You Keep the Music Playing by James Ingram and Patti Austin (1985)
    One More Try by George Michael (1988)
    Nothing Compares to You (written and composed by Prince 1985) - I like Sinead O'Connor's version ....
  • gypsy_spirit
    gypsy_spirit Posts: 2,107 Member
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    I am a classic rocker, but I have eclectic taste in music:

    Melissa - Allman Brothers
    She Talk to Angels - Black Crows
    The One - Elton John
    The Long and Winding Road - Paul McCartney
    Wishing You Were Here - Chicago
    It's Too Late Baby - Carole King
    That's The Way I Always Heard It Would Be - Carly Simon
    November Rain - Guns & Roses
    I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner
    No More "I Love Yous" - Annie Lennox
    All Apologies - Nirvana
    Better Man - Pearl Jam
    To Make You Feel My Love - Garth
  • jouttie
    jouttie Posts: 109 Member
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    Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits. Listen and weep

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